Unlikely Warrior: A Pacifist Rabbi's Journey from the Pulpit to Iwo Jima

by Lee Mandel

A brilliant student, orator, and debater, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was an outspoken social activist and frequent lecturer on political topics during the 1930s. Despite his passionate support of pacifism, Gittelsohn voluntarily joined the navy when the United States entered World War II, becoming the first Jewish chaplain assigned to the United States Marine Corps. Gittelsohn's remarkable story, told here from his surviving notes, chronicles the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455619876
• ISBN13: 9781455619870
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"